United States Ninth Circuit

In a petition for review of the BIA's order removing petitioner from the U.S., the petition is denied where petitioner's conviction for possessing a controlled substance under California Health and Safety Code section 11379(a) qualified as a basis for removability under 8 U.S.C. section 1182(a)(2)(A)(i)(II).

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/25/2009
• Published 11/25/2009

Judges

• Before WILLIAM A. FLETCHER and RICHARD R. CLIFTON, Circuit Judges, and LOUIS H. POLLAK,District Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Howard Robert Davis, Santa Monica, CA, Juan Rolando Hernandez-Aguilar, Pro Se, for the petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Bryan Stuart Beier, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for the respondent.